we talked to terry moran earlier this morning about the options the u.s. has right now. >> george, we just got out of syria. and the first thing to say is, it looks like the situation there is going to go from worse to worst. you got rising sectarian hatred. now, staking their claim to the future in syria, massive war crimes, rising violence and criminality, and we could find no evidence that bashar assad or his army is about to break. quite the contrary. they wanted to change the government. now given the chaos, they don't. the united states has a choice, armed the rebels, engage deeply in a dangerous war for this region or broker a peace, probably with russia. give the syrian people an opportunity to determine their future and at least in the first stages, assad's likely to be a part of that process. >> congressman engel, is that the choice? >> i think it is. i think it's time to armed the rebels. i think the free syria army needs help. we know who they are. it's time that we make that move. >> i spoke to white house officials about this. they make two a